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William Edward Hartpole Lecky.
History of European Morals from Augustus to Charlemagne.
2 vols., London & Bombay: Longmans, Green, and Co., vol. 1 is the 1905 reprint, vol. 2 is from 1902 ("cheaper edition", previously issued 1898; original edn. was 1869).
[No ISBN].
Binding: hardback, stitch bound.
Printer: Spottiswoode & Co., London.
Size: 130x184x58mm.
Page count: vol 1: xxiv,468pp; vol. 2: xi,407pp plus a 40pp publisher’s catalogue bound-in.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair: no dustjackets; some wear to the boards and spines, especially at the edges and corners; page tops dusty; vol. 1 has pencilled sidelining on at least 1 page; vol. 2 is in less good condition, with its spine skewed from reading, pages more yellowed, previous owner’s name inked on the half-title page, and pencil marking on at least 33 pages — mainly sidelining, but with annotations on a few pages.

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Weight without packaging: 1103g.

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Contents:
Natural history of morals: Utilitarian school; Objections; Consequence; Utilitarian sanction; Intuitive school; Alleged diversities of moral judgment; The two schools related to the general condition of society; Order in which moral feelings are developed;
The Pagan Empire: Stoicism; Growth of a gentler & more cosmopolitan spirit in Rome; Rise of eclectic moralists; People still very corrupt — causes; Effects of stoicism on corruption; Passion for oriental religions; Neoplatonism;
Conversion of Rome: Theory which ascribes later Pagan moralists to Christian influence; Theory which attributes conversion to the evidence of miracles; Persecution of the Church not of a nature to crush it; History of the persecutions;
From Constantine to Charlemagne: New sense of the sanctity of human life; Universal brotherhood; Qualifications to admiration of the charity of the Church; Growth of asceticism; Saints of the desert; Decline of civic virtues; Moral condition of the Byzantine empire; Excellencies of the ascetic period; Tendency to produce humanity to animals; Monachism; Relation of monachism to intellectual virtues; Monasteries the receptacles of learning; Moral condition of western Europe; Military & aristocratic spirit; Consecration of secular rank;
The position of women: Courtesans; Roman public opinion much purer; Christian influence; Relation of Christianity to the feminine virtues.

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